30 Sep
2009
30 Sep
'09
1:53 p.m.
JBG writes:
[OCR'ing and indexing]
Indexing the bitsavers.org material would be a nice first step.
Kinda magically, bitsavers documents are turning up in Google searches
Quite regularly. I know, it's not really magic, what Google is doing
Is OCR'ing (where not already done, I think that at least some of the
Bitsavers PDF's already are OCR'ed by Al or others) and putting it in their
gigantic
Index. But the end result is magic.
Google is astonishing. I've had files that I thought I lost years ago,
But I start typing some search terms into Google and Shazam!, there's
That document I wrote back in 1992 but haven't seen since, living on
Somebody's mirror of my website from before I deleted it. That's astonishing.
I'm not saying we should count on Google to do all our work, but wow.
Tim.